Word Meanings - BRANCHIOSTEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Related words: (words related to BRANCHIOSTEGE)

• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• APPENDIX VERMIFORMIS
  The vermiform appendix.
• BRANCHIOSTEGAL
  Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n.
• REISSNER'S MEMBRANE
  The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.